Being and Place among the Tlingit (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Author:Thomas F. Thornton

ISBN 13:9780295987491

ISBN 10:295987499

Edition:N/A

Publisher:University of Washington Press

Publication Date:2007-11-21

Format:Paperback

Pages:236

List Price:$24.95

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In Being and Place among the Tlingit, place signifies a specific geographical location and also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place consists of three dimensions-space, time, and experience-which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thomas Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity are formed. As he observes, despite cultural and environmental changes over time, particularly in the post-contact era since the late eighteenth century, Tlingits continue to bind themselves and their culture to places and landscapes in distinctive ways.

About the Author:Thomas F. Thornton is associate professor of anthropology at Portland State University in Oregon